#578 — Alex Winter, Angel Manuel Soto, Phil Lord & Chris Miller

The Empire Film Podcast

Bauer Media

Tv & Film, Film Reviews

4.6 • 2.7K Ratings

🗓️ 18 August 2023

⏱️ 117 minutes

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Summary

Well, look at that: just in time for the Women's World Cup final this weekend, the Empire Podcast scores a hat-trick of lovely guests. (Well, four actually, which is even better!) Chris Hewitt may be off this week, but he continues to haunt the podcast by conducting two of those interviews, a chat about the impact of YouTube with Alex Winter, former Bill and current director of thought-provoking new documentary, The YouTube Effect, and then a fun and insightful talk about Blue Beetle with that film's director, Angel Manuel Soto. And we're also visited for the first time in a while by old pod-chums, Phil Lord & Chris Miller, who tell Ben Travis all about how they produced raunchy talking dog movie, Strays. And there's a bit of Spider-Verse chat as well, because of course there is. With Chris on a beach, earning 20% (of his Empire salary, so you work out how much that is), Helen O'Hara hosts this week's film-related fun, welcoming James Dyer, Amon Warmann, and Nick de Semlyen into the podbooth, where they talk about Nick's new book, The Last Action Heroes; discuss the dream Q&A they'd love to host; muse on the greatest movie hair; run their collective eye over the week's movie news; and review Strays, Blue Beetle, Hitchcock, Biosphere and Billion Dollar Heist. Enjoy!

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0:00.0	On the Empire Podcast this week, we're going to the dogs with Phil Lord and Chris Miller
0:20.5	as they talk strays, and beatling about with Unhelman Wellsotto, director of Blue Beetle,
0:28.9	asking Alex Winter about the effects of YouTube as he tells us about the YouTube effect.
0:35.6	All that and more on the movie podcast that is wearing a fake nose right now,
0:40.1	as when you speak. Too soon. Too soon. Hello, pod. I'm Helen O'Hara and welcome to this week's
0:46.4	Empire Podcast. Your regular host, Chris Hewitt, is absent this week. I'm afraid because he is
0:51.6	presumably still on hold with British Airways. He doesn't even have a flight to change. He just
0:57.6	really likes their old music. But fear not because I am still joined by three colleagues of such
1:03.6	lethal cunning. First up is our very own warrior nun. Please hold your comments about that for
1:08.8	later. James Dyer. Hello, Helen. Hello. I feel like I've been away for months. It felt like
1:15.1	that to us as well. It was a glorious day. I can only apologize to the fact that I have now returned.
1:21.4	Did you have a nice holiday? Yes. It was fine. Good. Somehow diameter. That's right. James,
1:29.8	are you hoping for warrior nuns on the run? I know you're not on the run. That's the dream, isn't it?
1:37.3	You just heard them both because we've already gone to the dogs. But we also have our warrior novice.
1:42.8	I'm on warren. Hello. How you doing? Thank you. And finally, our beloved warrior mother superior
1:50.1	to someone. Amen. Do look good in a wimple. Well, thank you. I put it on specially.
1:55.0	Nick, you are actually here for a reason today. And it's a very exciting one. And the reason is that
1:59.9	next week, next week, a week today, a week today, as we record this, less than a week today,
2:05.9	as you listen to it, your newest book will be out on shelves, both digital and actual. And it is
2:12.7	called the last action heroes. Neurotic thriller. Not an erotic. Although there are moments of
2:17.6	rumpy rumpy. Yes, this is my sweaty saga that I worked on over 2021, 2020, 2022. Who knows? Time
2:25.5	is a concern. This was your pandemic. This was my pandemic. And you can probably tell by reading it.
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